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president biden to shoot down another high altitude object. this one near lake huron. well have much more on "cnn this morning" starting at 6:00 a.m. eastern. im paula reed. good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com blng detroits the city of champions. the whole world knows that detroit is the american city whose products have revolutionized our way of living. and only in michigan will you find the men and women whose talent made us the arsenal of democracy in wartime and the...

im paula reid. jim acosta has the day off. you are in the "cnn newsroom." we begin with breaking news. the u.s. military has shot down another high-altitude object, this time over lake huron. this is according to aus u.s. official and a congressional source briefed on the matter. this would be the fourth object brought down by u.s. fighter jets in the past nine days. cnns kylie atwood is at the state department. kylie, war you learning? >> thats right, paula. and the third object broug...

well bring you a live report from the scene. and in ukraine, last remaining fighters inside that steel plant are surrendering leaving russia in control of the key port city after months of fighting. and in washington for the first time in 50 years, lawmakers are holding a hearing on ufo sightings that have stunned officials at the pentagon. and we begin the hour with a primary under way in a key swing state, pennsylvania, and what has been an eventful series of races full of twists...

An American drone pilot who breached a “no-fly” zone on Coronation Day reportedly provoked fears of a Russian attempt to sabotage the ceremony.

What do you think the top brass are talking about right now? theyre clearly reacting to this situation? is it possible to get ahead of this now or are they going to continue to react? >> i think in some ways theyre reactive. its kind of our national past time is to be reactive to events like this. theyre trying hard to refine their processes. and we see part of that in the way that north com has responded to these things, much more frequent, much more engaged, clearly everyone from the radar ope...

57 past the hour. today for the first time in over 50 years congress held a public hearing on ufos, the focus a pentagon report that revealed navy pilots and radar operators had reported sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena. joining us on capitol hill is gadi schwartz. what do lawmakers want to hear? >> reporter: lawmakers are looking for specific answers. so far in this hearing we havent seen specific answers. in fact, were hearing a lot more questions than answers. what we did see was ...

E.t. to prepare them for this very moment. my 4 and 2-year-old. theyre ready. what do we know at this moment? >> we dont know what it is. thats the facts right now. the most straightforward fact is a big one. its something flying in our skies that appears to be under some intelligence control in a way our government seems unable to explain and our best military trained aviators, including fighter pilots, commanders, lieutenant commanders are describing objects that dont o bee the law of physic, ...

All information held on this. and will be trying to figure out what to do. he has said himself something feels a little bit different with all this. with the u.s. navy pilots and the radar operators now coming forward. there is something different, important and big happening. >> tucker: so what would you say since you speak to a lot of people who are involved in this, not just in the professional u.f.o. questioning world, which i think most of us have a right to be a little skeptical of. but or...

Needs to be taking if this isn an issue for the armed services committee and the intelligence committee, i dont know what is. . >> why isnt it an issue question my. >> the good news is that c the senate armed services committee have been looking at this, they have interviewed some of the pilots and radar operators who have been involved in these close encounters, but harry reid has obviously called for more than this public hearing h sprayed i would support that. hacking, i would turn up and tes...

>> tucker: yes. that is where my interest comes from. so why arent governments encouraging the population to, as say they about terrorism, if you see something, say something? report sightings to the government so we can make sense of the potential threat? >> they should be. that is what we certainly did at the ministry of defense for many years. we took it very seriously. our own pilots were seeing these things. we were having radar operators track them. we knew again, through intelligence and ...